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Feeling Good Tip of the Day ~ The Most Important Decision of the Day

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“Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

NOTE: Each of our days begins with an important decision. We decide when we awake the kind of day we’re going to heave. We are making a fateful decision. In that moment we can dare to affirm that we will have a great day seeking the best in ourselves and in those we meet. We affirm that we have the strength and resources to meet whatever challenges come our way. 

Photo of the Day ~ Offer a Helping Hand

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We all need a helping hand

Every now and then

Once we get our balance

We’re good to go

 

 

 

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Positive Thought of the Day ~ It’s Always Beginning

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“I realize something. That wasn’t a finish line for me…This is my new starting line.”

Wendelin Van Draanen
NOTE: Each time we accomplish a goal, each time we meet with a success we mark the starting place for the next adventure. Life calls us to keep moving forward. Life calls us not to look back but to look ahead to next great adventure.

Feeling Good Tip of the Day ~ It is Possible to be Happy

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Happiness often comes from within. Learn how to tame negative thoughts and approach every day with optimism. All humans have a tendency to . . . ruminate more on bad experiences than positive ones. It’s an evolutionary adaptation — over-learning from the dangerous or hurtful situations we encounter through life (bullying, trauma, betrayal) helps us avoid them in the future and react quickly in a crisis. But that means you have to work a little harder to train your brain to conquer negative thoughts. Here’s how:

Don’t try to stop negative thoughts. Telling yourself “I have to stop thinking about this,” only makes you think about it more. Instead, own your worries. When you are in a negative cycle, acknowledge it. “I’m worrying about money.” “I’m obsessing about problems at work.”

Treat yourself like a friend. When you are feeling negative about yourself, ask yourself what advice would you give a friend who was down on herself. Now try to apply that advice to you.

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NOTE: If we want to stop the flow of negative thoughts the first step is to become AWARE of what you are thinking. If you’re like me, your thoughts can take hold of you and run off at a 100 miles an hour. Once we become aware of what we are thinking, we can apply the brakes to our thinking and substitute a new thought process. It’s not easy, it is possible. An optimistic thought always feels much better than a negative thought. 

Photo of the Day ~ Keep Moving

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No matter how long the road

Keep moving.

No matter how lonely the journey

Press on

Good fortune awaits you

Don’t Quit

 

 

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Poem of the Day ~ Hope

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Hope

Theodore Henry Shackelford

O Hope! into my darkened life
    Thou hast so oft’ descended;
My helpless head from failure’s blows,
    Thou also hast defended;
When circumstances hard, and mean,
    Which I could not control,
Did make me bow my head with shame,
    Thou comforted my soul. 

When stumbling blocks lay all around,
    And when my steps did falter,
Then did thy sacred fires burn
    Upon my soul’s high altar.
Oft’ was my very blackest night
    Scarce darker than my day,
But thou dispelled those clouds of doubt,
    And cheered my lonely way.

E’en when I saw my friends forsake, 
    And leave me for another,
Then thou, O Hope, didst cling to me
    Still closer than a brother;
Thus with thee near I groped my way
    Through that long, gloomy night
Till now; yes, as I speak, behold, 
    I see the light! the light!

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Poem of the Day ~ Promise

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Promise

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Through the moil and the gloom they have issued
    To the steps of the upwinding hill, 
Where the sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow
    In their preluding rhapsodies trill.

With a thud comes a stir in the bosom,
    As there steals on the sight from afar,
Through a break of a cloud’s coiling shadow
    The gleam of a bright morning star!

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Poem of the Day ~ Keep A-Pluggin’ Away

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Keep A-Pluggin’ Away

Paul Laurence Dunbar 

I’ve a humble little motto
That is homely, though it’s true,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
It’s a thing when I’ve an object
That I always try to do,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
When you’ve rising storms to quell,
When opposing waters swell,
It will never fail to tell,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.

If the hills are high before
And the paths are hard to climb,
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
And remember that successes
Come to him who bides his time,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
From the greatest to the least,
None are from the rule released.
Be thou toiler, poet, priest,
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.

Delve away beneath the surface,
There is treasure farther down,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
Let the rain come down in torrents,
Let the threat’ning heavens frown,
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
When the clouds have rolled away,
There will come a brighter day
All your labor to repay,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.

There ‘ll be lots of sneers to swallow.
There’ll be lots of pain to bear,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
If you’ve got your eye on heaven,
Some bright day you’ll wake up there,
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.
Perseverance still is king;
Time its sure reward will bring;
Work and wait unwearying,—
    Keep a-pluggin’ away.

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Inspiring Quote of the Day ~ Make Each Day Count

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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” 

~ Abraham Lincoln

Photo of the Day ~ Welcome to Today

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Welcome to Today

Grateful for a New Opportunity

Good Things are Coming Your Way

Welcome World

 

 

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